• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.123-133
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• 2022

This paper explores the key factors influencing the business performance of enterprises, specifically women-owned small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Vietnam. The extant literature on factors affecting the business performance of women-owned SMEs in Vietnam is still quite scarce. The researchers used a self-administered questionnaire to achieve a sample of 265 female SME owners in Vietnam to find these factors. The obtained data was analyzed by using SPSS 20.0. Cronbach's α test and factor analysis have been carried out to test the reliability of data and validate the hypothesis. The results showed that these enterprises' performances had a significant positive relationship with the business management competencies of the directors of the business, quality of human resources, financial access, socio-cultural factors, and government policy. Also, the study showed no relationship between the enterprise's business network and business performance. The results suggest that female business owners should improve their business management capacity, focusing on training activities to improve the quality of human resources of enterprises. The Government needs policies to support small and medium enterprises in accessing financial and other resources and propagate to reduce gender stereotypes.

• 대한안전경영과학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.25-32
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• 2022

The rate of industrial accident reduction is slowing down as the attention of the Ministry of Employment and Labor and related agencies on risk assessment systems decreased. this paper focuses on weakness of legal system for the risk assessment in recent years. A survey was conducted to identify the status and condition of the risk assessment system applying on small and medium-sized manufacturing companies. A set of questionnaires is designed to reflect various perspectives of the companies regarding the problems and solutions of the system. The results refer that differentiated instructions and support systems in response to the actual conditions of the companies are mandatory to reinforce the efficiency of risk assessment system.

• Journal of Korea Trade
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.39-55
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• 2022

Purpose - This study empirically examines the effect of the Korean government export promotion program (EPP) on small and medium-sized enterprise (SMEs) export performance using firm-level data. Unlike most previous studies that investigated some specific samples of firms, this study analyzes a vast amount of SME data of the Korean Small and Medium Business Administration over the period 2005 to 2008. Design/methodology - An endogeneity problem arises when a firm's probability of being selected is correlated with the likelihood of successfully implementing EPPs. To control for the endogeneity of the EPPs in a relatively short-period sample, we employ 2-Stage Residual Inclusion (2SRI) RE-Tobit and bivariate Tobit procedure. Findings - Analyses show that Korean government EPPs have positive significant effects on SME exports. Empirical results also show that SME export activities are significantly encouraged by R&D investment and capital intensity, but not obviously by labor productivity. Originality/value - This study provides evidence that SME capital intensity, R&D investment, and the number of workers are significant determinants to SME exporting activities, whereas per worker labor cost and employee education are not. These results imply that even for SMEs, firm size is a major factor in promoting exporting activities.

• 한국해양공학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.190-197
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• 2023

In the shipbuilding and marine industry, digital transformation activities are promoted primarily by large shipyards. However, bottlenecks are observed across value chains, and digital transformation effects are reducing because of the cost and technical challenges encountered by supplies. In this study, we proposed a win-win cooperation model for large, small, and medium-sized companies using digital transformation based on the characteristics of the shipbuilding and marine industry through case studies. We investigated the digital transformation progress in German and Korean small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition, we identified information-sharing methods and management challenges encountered in enterprise resource planning and manufacturing execution systems in the collaboration process of pipes, panels, blocks, etc. of SMEs that are suppliers of a Korean shipyard, and clarified communication by building a platform based on a common format between shipyards and suppliers. Further, we proposed a standard model of a digital transformation system for enhancing the collaboration between large companies and suppliers and proposed a basic plan including strategies to efficiently and effectively build a digital transformation system based on the standard model.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제38권10호
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• pp.880-894
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• 2005

The purposes of this study were to a) measure the IC identified of CFMC (contract foodservice management company) ,b) examine IC circumstance of CFMC, c) evaluate practically IC measurement tool of CFMC, and d) present information for selecting an adequate CFMC to clients. The questionnaires of IC measurement were handed out to 108 CFMCs, there composing of main office employees, foodservice managers, customers, and clients of 207 school,38 hospital, and 86 husiness/industry foodservices. The statistical data analysis was completed using SPSS Win (ver 12.0) for descriptive analysis, t-test, Mann-Whitney U test. First, CFMCs had operational experience for an average of 8 years and 8 months, and served an average of 38,540 meals a day. Most of the respondent companies specialized in the school foodservice field and managed an average of 66 clients for the contract period of 2 years and 3 months. Second, the respondent companies had gotten a score of 77.78 points for the total average, 77.7 points in the large enterprise group and 78.1 points in the small and medium-sized enterprise group. Therefore, the minimum number of points for the accrediting license on Qualification is suggested to be over 70 out of a 100 point scale; this study would be serve as reference for the certification license on qualification. On the level of evaluation category, the scores were 14.15 to 20 points on $\ulcorner$finance$\urcorner$, 19.24 to 25 points on $\ulcorner$customer$\urcorner$, 19.33 to 25 points on $\ulcorner$process$\urcorner$, 14.31 to 20 points on $\ulcorner$human resource$\urcorner$, and 8.6 to 10 point on $\ulcorner$renewal and development$\urcorner$ . $\ulcorner$Renewal and development$\urcorner$ and $\ulcorner$customer focus$\urcorner$ received better grades than other evaluation categories. Third, $\ulcorner$Finance$\urcorner$ indicated similar distribution overall. Small and medium-sized companies had lower grades than large companies on 'market ability' of $\ulcorner$customer$\urcorner$ , but, clients of small and medium-sized companies had higher grade for 'client satisfaction' than large companies. Most of the companies supported 'infrastructure support for foodservice operation' of $\ulcorner$process$\urcorner$ by the main office of CFMCs, but, the branch chain offices of CFMCs were not applied efficiently. Large companies made more effort to improve the 'employee ability' of $\ulcorner$human focus$\urcorner$ than small and medium-sized CFMC. The 'research and development cost' of $\ulcorner$renewal and development$\urcorner$ was increased compared to the previous year. In conclusion, if CFMCs were to perform self-evaluation and a routine checkups by utilizing CFMC's IC measuring tool, improvements in CFMC operational capacities as well as foodservice quality can be noted. (Korean J Nutrition 38(10)'880$\sim$894,2005)

• 한국인터넷방송통신학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.161-170
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• 2019

다품종 대량 생산 중소기업 공장에서는 제품의 종류가 다양하고 그 수량이 많기 때문에 재고의 관리를 위한 인력과 경비가 낭비되고 있다. 또한 재고의 현황을 실시간으로 확인 할 방법이 마련 되있지 않아서 재고의 과적재, 과부족 현상으로 인한 경제적 피해를 받고 있다. 실시간 데이터 수집 환경을 구축하기 위한 많은 방안이 있지만 대부분 구축비용과 시간이 중소 중견기업이 감당하기 어려운 수준이다. 그렇기 때문에 중소 중견기업의 스마트 공장은 구현되기 어려운 현실을 마주하고 있으며, 적절한 대책을 찾기 힘든 실정이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현재 생산품 관리 기술로 많이 채택되는 바코드, QR코드와 함께 라벨에 표기되어 있는 글자추출을 통해 기존 재고관리 방법의 확장에 대한 내용을 구현하고 그 효과를 평가하였다. 기술적으로는 컴퓨터 이미지 처리를 통해서 기존의 생산품의 입출고 관리를 위한 방법인 재고라벨 및 바코드에 대한 자동인식 및 분류를 하기 위한 OpenCV를 이용한 전처리, 구글 비젼 API의 OCR(Optical Character Recognition)기능을 통해서 글자를 추출하고, Zbar를 통해서 바코드를 인식할 수 있게 설계하였고, 값비싼 장비를 사용하지 않고 라즈베리파이를 통해 실시간 영상을 통한 인식으로 재고를 관리할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2014

최근 정부에서는 창조경제 실현을 위해 IT, 과학기술의 융합과 혁신을 지속적으로 추진하고 있으며, 이에 중소기업이 성장하고 소상공인이 행복한 창조경제를 구현하기 위한 창조경제 생태계를 조성하고 있다. 최근 IT 변화를 주도하는 모바일의 확산에 따라 모바일 앱, SNS, 빅데이터 등 모바일 관련 다양한 융합기술 개발이 추진되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 정부의 창조경제 실현을 위해 중소기업이 상상력과 창의성을 기반으로 모바일 융합 기술개발을 통해 새로운 부가가치 시장과 일자리를 창출할 수 있는 체계적인 육성방안을 제안하였다.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스연구
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.191-207
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• 2007

Nowadays almost nations try to promote the competition of nation through the development of national science technology. Also Korea has been engaging in this race of through public research&development institute. But recently the commercialization of R&D products appears a poor result in the royalty of technology according weak technology transfer toward IT small and medium-sized enterprises. Even If we have been trying to find the problems and causes, as yet it is true that we don't solve clearly the problem, make a diagnosis about it. This paper analyzes the process of commercialization in public R&D research institute(ETRI: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) through system thinking and researches an interrelationship among government agency, public R&D research institute, and enterprise. This one can find the fact that between research fund and R&D products, transfer technology and royalty, and enterprise's operating profit and active technology transfer like adding technology development is a positive feedback loop. This positive feedback loop in the commercialization of public R&D research institute carries out very important role in examining problems in R&D product's commercialization. Also this paper looks forward to being a guide in the commercialization of public R&D research institute.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2003년도 추계종합학술대회
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• pp.43-46
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• 2003

IT연구개발에 대한 정보통신부의 기술개발지원은 사업별 특성에 따라서 다르고 또한 지원기관에 따라서도 다르다. 기초원천기술개발을 위주로 하는 선도기술개발사업은 과학기술부의 과학기술개발과 유사하고 지원대상 또한 출연연구소, 대학 및 대기업을 주로 지원하면서 산정기준이 주로 출연연구기관을 중심으로 기준을 제정하였고, IT산업기술개발사업과 IT우수신기술 지정지원사업은 기업을 주로 지원하는 사업으로 정부가 대통령령으로 제정한 "국가연구개발사업의관리등에관한규정"의 형식을 수용하면서도 일부 비목들은 인정하지 않고 있다. 이러한 차별은 공급자 중심의 연구개발시스템에서 제정된 것으로 수요자중심의 기업관점에서 볼 때 차별은 마땅히 개선되어야 하므로 새로운 산정 기준안을 제안하였다.

• 한국시스템다이내믹스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국시스템다이내믹스학회 2007년도 추계학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.49-65
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• 2007

Nowadays almost nations try to promote the competition of nation through the development of national science technology. Also Korea has been engaging in this race of through public research & development institute. But recently the commercialization of R&D products appears a poor result in the royalty of technology according weak technology transfer toward IT small and medium-sized enterprises. Even If we have been trying to find the problems and causes, as yet it is true that we don't solve clearly the problem, make a diagnosis about it. This paper analyzes the process of commercialization in public R&D research institute(ETRI: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute) through system thinking and researches an interrelationship among government agency, public R&D research institute, and enterprise. This one can find the fact that between research fund and R&D products, transfer technology and royalty, and enterprise's operating profit and active technology transfer like adding technology development is a positive feedback loop. This positive feedback loop in the commercialization of public R&D research institute carries out very important role in examining problems in R&D product's commercialization. Also this paper looks forward to being a guide in the commercialization of public R&D research institute.